Plum, also known as plum, has many aliases, including spring plum, dry plum, sour plum, plum, is a kind of Rosaceae apricot genus of small trees, but also a kind of sparse shrubs, the bark of the plum is light gray and greenish and the surface of the tree is smooth, the upper part of the twigs are green and smooth and hairless, the plum leaves are ovate, elliptic.

Originally in the southern region of China, the history of cultivation has been more than three thousand years, either as an ornamental or fruit trees have many varieties, and the information of the plum blossom shows that its ornamental value is very high, but also as a handicraft. p>Botanical History

Plum is a traditional flower and fruit unique to China, which has been used for more than 3,000 years. The Book of Books and Sutras reads, "If you make a soup of peace, you can only salt the plums." Rituals - the internal rules, "Peach Zhu Mei Zhu egg salt." Poetry - Zhounan" cloud: "misty plum, in fact, seven Ruoxi!" . In "Qin Feng - Terminal South", "Chen Feng - Tomb Gate", Cao Feng - Cormorant" and other poems, also mentioned plum. The records of the above ancient books show that in ancient times, plum is a substitute for cheese as a condiment, cooking and gifts and other indispensable less things.

At least 2,500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the domestication of wild plums was begun to make them into domestic plums - fruit plums. 1975, Chinese archaeologists found plum kernels in the bronze tripods of the Shang Dynasty in the Anyang Yin Ruins, which indicates that as early as 3,200 years ago, plums were already used as food.

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